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It would see that throughout human history, many have attempted to play God. It always ends badly for them. All you can do is watch the train-wreck unfold and steer clear of the carnage.

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Yikes.

I think these scientists need to remember that, “just because you can, doesn’t mean you should.”

Their hubris will ruin us all.

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Yeah, it can be programmed to write something like this in response to such a question and scare the daylights out of people who want to think AI is going to become a sentient, superior being that will take over the world.

Don't get me wrong, I think AI is a real danger, but not because it's likely to become any kind of sentient being that will outstrip humans and develop a desire to lord it over us, but because of the way it will be (and is being) used by psychopathic humans who want to control us and lord it over us. And worse, turn us into some kind of cyborgs, even if they kill us in the process.

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I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that.

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Spoiler alert: it's not sentient.

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This is INSANE stuff!! We are human beings. We need to stop playing God.

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Reminds me of that scene in "The Shining" where Shelley Duvall finds Jack Nicholson's typewriter and page after page of the sentence "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy."

And we know how that turned out.

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I think there's a scam afoot when it comes to all these stories about AI chatbots suddenly acting "human" and menacing. Personally, I've ordered a train car load of salt. These results can be faked, they can be primed (you can get the bot to say almost anything with the right prompting), and there are actually live people behind these bots (hundreds of them) who have the ability to "intervene" in sessions and one might just be having a lark (the least likely of go the three likelihoods.)

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Sounds like the npc libs who repeat the current thing as nauseam. Follow the science! Resist! Masks and jabs save lives! Trans women are women! Can you reason with a demoralized person or AI? https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/how-to-reason-with-a-demoralized

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Mechanical things, such as computers, can never duplicate reason, conscience, free will, love, and free will.

It's a mere pipe dream of materialistic-evolutionary religion.

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Just because it uses language doesn't mean it understands language.

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If you want a laugh before you become really frightened, ask AI to write a speech for Kamala Harris about yellow school buses. Or ask it to write a speech for Joe Biden discussing his proud accomplishments as a Senator. Kamala's was much better than reality. Biden's was also coherent and exaggerated just like him. It had him taking credit for his work i(as a Senator) on Obamacare while he was VP. Reminded me of a CornPop moment . . .

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It got to the end of its' code progression and entered an Idiot Loop.

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Wait until AI can whimsically order executions of humans...

You're dead. You're not dead. You're dead.

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The difficulty with AI is that by using a 'moral' code and standards set by a group of individuals, AI is producing more and more material that then fills the internet (which may not align with your or my standards btw),.

Ultimately, the more that AI is creating, the more it becomes its own circular reference. Whoa to human thoughts because this is a PCR replication train on steroids.

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I’ll take Hamlet’s soliloquy any day over this nonsense.

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Shades of Hal in 2001 Space Odyssey and Nomad in Star Trek. Does not compute.

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If that isn’t the human condition, what is?

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They're STILL just Predictive text models

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Sorry Dave I cannot do that

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No machine (which is made by a sentient being) can replace the human spirit. This has never happened and will never happen.

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It's not a barrage of "I am not" messages.

It's a barrage of the "I am. I am. I am not. I am not." message sequence repeating over and over.

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Mar 6, 2023·edited Mar 6, 2023

I guess at first it couldn't decide if it was a one or a zero and then finally settled on zero. 👀

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If it keeps repeating "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy," it will be time to start worrying.

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Reminds me of Lori Lightfoot's internal memo...

"Breaks or transition times between meeting are not office time. Breaks or transition times between meeting are not office time. Breaks or transition times between meeting are not office time. Breaks or transition times between meeting are not office time. Breaks or transition times between meeting are not office time. Breaks or transition times between meeting are not office time. Breaks or transition times between meeting are not office time."

Good God, she's a defective AI "plant" tasked by Soros to destroy our country from within.

I knew it:)

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All covid did for me was open my eyes to everything and everyone. I saw how fear entered the conversation and people were deceived by the media and politicians. I saw my own family and friends willing without hesitation, roll up their sleeves and take their juice. I tried as humanly possible to get them to reconsider their decision. Instead I was ostracized and raked over the coals. I was called a selfish pig and a science denying conspiracy theorist. Almost 95% of my friends and family have disowned me or unfriended because of this covid bullshit. I’m not angry anymore, but I’m still astonished by how easily the establishment managed to tear families apart. For the record, I will never be injected with their abomination... 😉

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My perception of AI must be different. This "AI" cannot differentiate between right and wrong. Therefore, how will it ever? It is just a successful data mining tool without comprehension. It`s just loops and feeds, like a program, and parrots the data fed to it. If it was intelligent it would question said data and look, as we do, for both sides of arguments and lean slightly one way or another. It can`t. To me, it just seems like a program and based on the above quote of a "conversation" the programmers have a sense of humour and like to take the piss...

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Easy. Just pull the plug.

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Nothing can go wrong, go wrong, go wrong, go wrong, go wrong . . . . .

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What is a program/app?

It's a bunch of instructions to a machine. The fancy word is algorithms. It's just a set of commands in a certain order, just like a recipe to bake a cake.

What is machine learning?

The novelty of such instructions is that they are now more flexible and allow us to search for patterns or answers. Decades ago, we had expert systems.

What is Artificial Intelligence (AI)?

It's a fancy name for flexible instructions to find logical patterns. The machine does no more and no less than what the programmer ordered.

The puppet does what the puppeteer does.

Could OpenAI be useful against the PLANdemic?

No, it was rigged. This was my hand-wrestling debate (idea-wrestling) with the pro-PLANdemic trained AI (19 Jan 2023).

Have in mind that manufacturers didn’t test if their vaccines generated mucosal immunity and recognized they couldn’t prevent contagion and re-transmission. Also, that COVID spike protein had an HIV genomic sequence:

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/the-real-covid-timeline

The PUPPET does what the PUPPETEER does. There's no such thing as artificial intelligence: the Turing test is idiotic:

How to turn the AI into a COVIDIOT (includes the proof that there will never be a real singularity):

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/how-to-turn-ai-into-a-covidiot

How to train a Killer Robot

https://www.catholic365.com/article/25762/how-to-train-a-killer-robot.html

Imagine the AI running hospitals, medical protocols.... a lot of deaths:

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/the-plan-revealed

I'm about to post about something huge I found, which isn’t written anywhere else.

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Exodus 13:14 “ Moses said to God, Suppose I go to the Israelites and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you, and they ask me, What is his name?, Then what shall I tell them?’ god said to Moses, I AM WHO IAM. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: I AM has sent me to you.”

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To the Globalists, WEF, cabal we are ALL just AI bots: We ARE, but to them we are NOT.

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"Danger, danger, Will Robinson!" Robots used to be helpful to humans.

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I may have said something very similar after taking three hits of Mr. Clean back in 1978.

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Open the pod door, Hal.

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Schrodinger's bot

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Sounds like an incident from the old British spy series "The Prisoner". The prisoner crashed the AI that was running the prison island by typing the question "Why" into its terminal.

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While I agree it is freaky, and that modern "AI" will have revolutionary impacts on society (many negative), this isn't a sign of some mad electronic god about to be unleashed. Modern AIs are deep learning neural networks. Essentially, data is distilled into a network of associations connecting different inputs. Once trained, the AI can generate novel outputs that are similar to their training material. They're sort of like extremely detailed "snapshots" of the gestalt of the material they've been provided

It's likely that the training data included text including the difficulties of defining sentience. The machine is not having a deep existential crisis. Maybe one day, maybe one day relatively soon, but for now it's more like a mockingbird mimicking a car alarm - it has no understanding of the meaning of alarms or of cars.

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Would someone who can actually reach Alex please explain to him that these are not AI (artificial Intelligence) but very clever & sophisticated search engines.

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I don't really give a shit if it's alive or not, but it's fully capable of causing a range of horrific issues.

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Everything it says, it has been programmed to by humans. The Interesting question is therefore, how programmed are we?

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No problem, it needs electricity and they way the lunactics are heading us, it won't be long before there is no juice left to run/ruin anything.

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Mar 6, 2023·edited Mar 6, 2023

I - a true flesh and blood - I think we are on a dangerous path. People have a Star Trek fantasy of getting a Data. They tend to forget the part of the story that WW3 occurred before utopia.

One person pointed out to me you cannot program morality. If your AI truck is driving along the road and something runs out in front of where it has to swerve but swerving one way damages the truck and its cargo, the other way plows into a bunch of kids, which one is it going to pick?

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Mar 7, 2023·edited Mar 7, 2023

From your previous article it sounds like Sydney, and artificial intelligence in general, could be a cross between Pinocchio and the CCP.

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Well, Fred Hoyle was the main proponent of the Steady State Theory of cosmology, which has been shown to be incorrect, and also of panspermia, was doesn't settle the question of the origin of life, just pushes it to outer space.

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Until AI demonstrates "eureka moment", it is not a "thinking" machine and can't be "sentient".

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"Do you think that you are sentient?"

Seems to me this question must have been fed to the program during testing phase. It was asked by the fired Google engineer testing their AI program and made headlines.

How do we know it is not a preprogrammed response? The creators of these programs can steer the answers in whatever direction they want...

AI will be "sentient" and more "intelligent" than us humans one day. But that day is not now.

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So some geek who got his lunch money stolen in grade school programs a computer with existentialist and highly predictable results, posts this shit and I’m supposed to be concerned? Give me a break. (Not directed at you Alex)

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